Tag: Awakening

In the Winter of Corona, I got jacked up on fight-or-flight fear — not because my awakening equanimity was weak, but because the echoes of living through a pandemic were strong. Believe it or not, I’d lived through the black plague as another iteration of my eternal self, and as a young child had a […]

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She describes her dark night of the soul as “entering into that territory where the practices that have sustained us no longer can guide us in the terrain we are in. It takes some major spiritual cohones to navigate that terrain because it’s so vulnerable, there is nothing to cling to, no familiar reference points.” […]

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Some of you know that I am an astrologer, not only a writer about awakening. Lately I have been noticing how the transits of outer planets impact our awareness of truth, particularly the planet Neptune. To be clear, I am not saying any planet is a causal agent. What planets seem to be in relationship […]

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I’m sitting in an airy room in Costa Rica, bird song wafting through the open windows along with a warm breeze. The sound of a spiritual teacher answering questions from his seat up front is just a part of the mandala of beauty that is this moment. The day wears on. I am without questions. […]

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Let’s face it. Everyone wants to jump aboard the magic carpet ride of manifestation, prophecy, telepathy, miracle healing and mind-bending synchronicity. These are wonder hits, the unicorns of life that—when encountered—fire up a burst of gratitude, delight and joy. What these amazing phenomena also do is slam dunk you back home, to the you that […]

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It’s that moment where you realize you just might have not only woken up in the dream, but from it. Symptoms: 1. Nothing on the menu of self development and spiritual growth matters. Cause you know the self that is tinkering with self improvement is not real. 2. Everything you do matters because you are […]

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Have you ever had one of those nocturnal dreams where you are convinced you just got out of bed and made a cup of coffee but for some reason the coffee tastes like nothing and the clock on the wall is unreadable? And then your lucid dreamer mind kicks in and you go, “oh shit, […]

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Billy Graham died yesterday which is remarkable —not because the man lived to the ancient age of 99, but because in the memory of some people, this is his third death or more already. To them, this famous American evangelical pastor died in the fall of 2017, 2012, or 2009 and even earlier This situation […]

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Brace for a surreal ride. Because whether you are ready to admit it or not, we’ve collectively begun to wake up to a strange new porous reality. Or as Morpheus says to Neo in the film The Matrix, “You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the […]